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An Alt Religious View Of Covid
And why God gave it to us
I’m not a religious guy. In fact, I’m an agnostic — leaning toward atheism — if anything. I figure nobody knows what’s really going on. And to say you do is delusional. So if you believe in God and all his omniscience and benevolent supremacy, why did he choose to give us the Covid pandemic? The answer (at least for me) is obvious.
I was born in 1950 — when the planet hosted 3 billion humans among its myriad species. Guess what that number is just 70 + years later. Over 8 billion. That’s a huge proliferation of homo sapiens given the short time period.
So God said, “I got a problem down there on planet earth. Too many people — too little time. I was hoping maybe a small nuclear war might trim the human herd without my divine intervention. But that hasn’t happened and it’s time to do something about it.”
It was either a major war a la WWII — or an epidemic. We got the epidemic. But relative to the booming population, it hasn’t really even made a dent. And that’s owing to human ingenuity and outsized intelligence. “Damn! I made them too smart,” could be what God is currently thinking.
For the Almighty, The immediate hack is to give us more variants. But that's not the long-term solution. He has to come up with something else.
